At the risk of this sounding like a sales pitch, this is a pretty
interesting program that essentially allows customers to experiment
with a Niagara box for 60 days free of charge. At the end of the 60
days, customers can either opt to buy the system or return the box to
Sun – I even think Sun pays for the return shipping. If you are
interested in investigating the performance
of Bioinformatics applications on Niagara, this represents a great
opportunity to do so.....

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Dr. Spracklen is a senior staff engineer in the Architecture Technology Group (Sun Microelectronics), that is focused on architecting and modeling next-generation SPARC processors. His current focus is hardware accelerators.